Exposition of the Canons, Third and Fourth Heads of Doctrine, Of the Corruption of Man, His Conversion to God, and the Manner Thereof: Article 17 (2)

In their explanation of this relation between the work of God's grace in regeneration and the use of the gospel, the seed of regeneration and the food of the soul, the fathers begin by making a very, apt comparison between the natural and the spiritual in regard to the use of means: "As the almighty operation of God, whereby He produces and sustains this our natural life, does not exclude, but requires the use of means, by which God of his infinite wisdom and goodness bas willed to exercise...